Portable ignition apparatus for vapor-burners.



N0. 667,225. Patented Feb; 5, MM.

' A. KITSON.

PORTABLE IGNITION APPARATUS FOR VAPOR BURNERS.

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ARTHUR KITSON, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO THE KITSON HYDROOARBON HEATING AND INOANDESOENT LIGHTING COM- PANY, OF SAME PLACE AND CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA.

PORTABLE IGNITION APPARATUS FOR VAPOR-BU RN ERS.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 667,225, dated February 5, 1901.

' Application filed May 25,1899. smart. 718,156. (NomodeLl T rtZZ whom it may concern: larged elevation and partial section of the Be it known that I, ARTHUR KITsoN, a subportable vapor-prod ucing apparatus. ject of the Queen of Great Britain, anda resi- Throughout the drawings like referencedent ofPhiladelphia, county of Philadelphia, figures refer to like parts.

5 State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain A vapor-burning lamp or other vapor-burnnew and usefulImprovements in Portable Iging apparatus to be ignited is of course pronition Apparatus, of which the following is a vided with a vaporizing-tube l and one or specification. more vapor-burners, (indicated at 2 2,)a mix- My invention relates generally to vaporing-tube 3, and a Bunsen burner 4, provided IO burning apparatus, and more specifically conwith side openings adapted to discharge jets sists of a portable ignition apparatus thereof flame under the vaporizing-tube 1. ()onfor. nectedto the Bunsen burner is a tube, pref- In the various forms of vapor-burninglamps erably a Siemens flexible tube 5, which is usuand stoves now in use the mostinconvenient ally led down the wall of the building to a 15 feature of their use is the slowness and awk-- pointfor convenient attachment to the vaporwardness of the operation of igniting them producing apparatus. under certain conditions. WVhere ordinary The vapor-producing apparatus consists of illuminating-gas can be obtained, it can be a hand-pump 6 or other mechanism for proconveniently employed to produce the preducing an airpressure, and mounted on a 20 liminary heating of the vaporizing apparabase 7, which can be held in position by the tus, as is described, for instance, in Letters foot of the operator. Supported from the Patent No. 608,051, granted to me July 26, pump 6 is a receptacle 8, preferably made in 1898. Where electricity is obtainable, the a cylindrical form, as shown, and supported method described in Letters Patent No. from the pump by any convenient form of 25 613,685, granted to meNovember8, 1898, may bracket l4 14. The receptacle 8 has a disbe followed; but in locations Where neither charge-opening at the top provided with a gas nor electricity is conveniently obtainable screw-threaded nipple 9, to which a flexible the alcohol-cup is still mainly relied on. Alcotube 10 or other connection can be screwed, hol, however, is costly and its heating action the other end of the flexible tube being pro- 30 apt to be slow, while the possibility of spilling vided with a union or other means of attacht-he alcohol and damaging the fragile mantle ment to the tube 5. in the operation of pouring is considerable The pump 6 may be of any convenient conwhen unskilled operators attempt the understruction-as, for instance, that shown where taking. To avoid these diflicnlties I have the piston 11 has valve-passagestherethrough 35 invented the improved form of portable igclosed ona downstroke by the flexible leather niter or carbureting apparatus, which has the washer 12. Openings 13 are provided in the convenience in use and certainty in action of upper part of the pump for the admission of the gas system and is cheaper and quicker air, and the connection 15 extends from the than the alcohol system. lower part of the pump to the lower part of 0 The preferred form of apparatus embodythe receptacle 8. A check-valve 16, opening ing my invention is disclosed in the accomso as to permit the passage of air from the panying two sheets of drawings, in whichpump to the receptacle, but closing to pre- 0 Figure l is a side elevation of the vapor- Vent its return, may be placed at any conproducing apparatus with a horizontal plan venient point in the line of connections from 45 and partial section of a vapor-burning lamp the pump to the lower part of the receptashown in diagrammatic relation thereto. Fig. ole 8. 2 is an end elevation and partial section of In the receptacle 8 is preferably placed a the vapor-producing lamp. Fig. 3 is an enmass of fibrous material, such as cotton-batting 17 or similar substance, and upon this gasolene, naphtha, or other cheap volatile fluid may be poured through the opening 18 in the upper part of the receptacle, said opening being closed after the introduction of the fluid by the cap 19 or other means. If desired, an ordinary valve 20 may be inserted between the nipple 9 and the tube 10.

The operation of my invention is as follows: The lamplighter thoroughly saturates the mass of fibrous material 17 with volatile fluid, as gasolene, and closes the cap 19. A sufficient amount of fluid may be introduced to cause the same to accumulate in liquid form in the lower portion of the receptacle 8, but usually enough to thoroughly saturate the fibrous material is all that is necessary. The cap 19 being screwed down tight and the flexible tube 10 connected with the nipple 9 the apparatus is taken around to the various lamps to be lighted. Connection is made from the flexible tube 10 to the tube 5 on any particular lamp which isto be lighted and the pump 6 operated. The air forced through the receptacle 8 takes up a quantity of vapor from the volatile fluid therein, and the mixture of vapor and air is passed through the tubes 10 and 5 to the Bunsen burner 4, where it can be ignited. One or two strokes of the pump are sufficient to store up enough air in the receptacle 8 to supply air and vapor for the lighting operation of any one lamp and sometimes for several lamps. In such case the valve 20 is closed after one lamp has been ignited, and the compressed air trapped in the receptacle 8 is thus retained until the connection is then made to a second lamp, and so on until the stock of compressed air is used up, when several more strokes of the pump have to be given to replenish the supply of compressed air. As soon as the mixed air and vapor begins to issue from the Bunsen burner 4 it is lighted by a match or torch and the heating of the vaporizing-tube 1 begins. After the same is heated sufficiently oil is turned onto the vaporizing-tube in the usual way (the oil connection not being shown) and the lamp becomes self-supporting in its operation.

Various changes could of course be made in the details of construction illustrated without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention so long as the relative arrangement of parts or principle of operation dis closed is preserved. The fibrous packing 17 might be dispensed with and the air forced through the body of liquid alone. Other forms of air-compressing apparatus could of course be employed. Other forms of liquidreceptacle and connecting-valves might be substituted. The apparatus could of course be used with other forms of vaporizing apparatus than the particular lamp shown; but all these modifications I still consider within the purview of my invention.

Having therefore described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to protect by Letters Patent, is-

The combination of a portable carbureting apparatus comprising an air-pump, a receptacle for volatile liquid supported therefrom, a tubular connection from the pump to the lower part of the receptacle, an opening in the upper part of the receptacle for the introduction of the liquid, a discharge-opening for vapor-laden air in the upper portion of the receptacle, together with a separate vapor-burning apparatus, a preheating-burner on said vapor-burning apparatus, a flexible tube connected to said preheating-burner, and means for connecting said tube to the discharge-opening in the upper portion of the carburetor, together with a valve controlling said detachable connection, and a check-valve controlling the connection from the pump to the lower part of the liquid-receptacle.

Signed by me at New York city, New York, this 20th day of May, 1899.

ARTHUR KITSON.

Witnesses:

LILIAN FOSTER, A. PARKER-SMITH. 

